George Santanya Quotations

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. George Santayana

Half our standards come from our first masters and the other half from our first loves. George Santayana

Love is only half the illusion the lover but not his love is deceived. George Santayana

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends. George Santayana

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection must rest on circumstantial evidence. George Santayana

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. George Santayana

The truth is cruel but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it. George Santayana

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana

...so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and obeyed. George Santayana